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IJCAI
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Sequential Bundle-Bid Single-Sale Auction Algorithms for Decentralized Control
We study auction-like algorithms for the distributed allocation of tasks to cooperating agents. To reduce the team cost of sequential single-item auction algorithms, we generalize...
Sven Koenig, Craig A. Tovey, Xiaoming Zheng, Ilgaz...
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Decentralized task allocation using magnet: an empirical evaluation in the logistics domain
This paper presents a decentralized task allocation method that can handle allocation of tasks with time and precedence constraints in a multi-agent setting where not all informat...
Mark Hoogendoorn, Maria L. Gini, Catholijn M. Jonk...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
On the Approximability of Budgeted Allocations and Improved Lower Bounds for Submodular Welfare Maximization and GAP
In this paper we consider the following maximum budgeted allocation (MBA) problem: Given a set of m indivisible items and n agents; each agent i willing to pay bij on item j and w...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Gagan Goel
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PODS
2005
ACM
164views Database» more  PODS 2005»
15 years 10 months ago
Lower bounds for sorting with few random accesses to external memory
We consider a scenario where we want to query a large dataset that is stored in external memory and does not fit into main memory. The most constrained resources in such a situati...
Martin Grohe, Nicole Schweikardt
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Finding approximate competitive equilibria: efficient and fair course allocation
In the course allocation problem, a university administrator seeks to efficiently and fairly allocate schedules of over-demanded courses to students with heterogeneous preferences...
Abraham Othman, Tuomas Sandholm, Eric Budish